Main Entry: rel?e?vance
Pronunciation: \?re-l?-v?n(t)s\
Function: noun
1 a : relation to the matter at hand b : practical and especially social applicability

how does U2 fit any of this criteria?? the album was unbearably disappointing on every level. this by default makes their choice irrelevant IN MY OPINION. and how can they account for the fact that U2 has little to no creative or artistic influence anymore, instead choosing to pump out redundant songs that had they been released say in ’94 would have blown people away.

therefore U2 stands high and mighty as the irrelevant monsters they’ve been for 15 years. same with the Stones man come on, can anyone say they’ve written a great song in 15 years…..and i mean great…this is a year end list……did anyone say they can?t acknowledge how great U2 was? Joshua Tree was seriously important record to me growing up, one of the reasons I began playing music bud, so thanks for your input on my historical upbringing. and how does someone listening to said artists back catalogue regularly make them still relevant? so 20,483 people bought Dark Side of the Moon this year, suddenly they?re relevant once again (see definition above). shit I didn?t know the Beatles released a new record this year?

so please, since i’m so daft, explain to me U2’s relevance this past decade, besides crimes to humanity and the environment with their appalling song writing and atrocious stage shows not to mention the ensuing pollution problems for which Boner feigns such compassion.
get over it, a lot of people don?t like their new music

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